The 9th Annual Designer Toy Awards Nominations Are Now Open!

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click over here Nominations are officially open for the 9th annual Designer Toy Awards! Presented by Clutter, the Designer Toy Awards (DTAs) is an annual event honoring excellence and innovation in the field of Designer Toys. With categories like Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Toy of the Year and Artist of the Year (among many others) the DTAs highlight the year’s best designs, concepts and accomplishments by both veterans and newcomers in the diverse world of Designer Toys.

This year’s awards will accept nominations for releases,
artists, and companies, that were active from January 1st, 2018 to
December 31st, 2018.

So Get Nominating…

Head on over to the Designer Toy Awards website and answer our “Call For Entries” by adding those worthy from 2018, and don’t forget… only nominated items can be considered for the awards. If you want your work to be considered please nominate it, nominations are confidential and there is no shame in nominating yourself or your own product!

How do the Awards work?

1. Open Nominations – Call for entries is open for anyone
(yourself included) to make a relevant nomination. Nominations are private and
will be used to determine the Finalists.

2. Nomination Committees – The
DTAs host small committees of industry professionals and fans, carefully
matched to categories in order to take the list of nominations and to determine
the Finalists. The committees meet and discuss every entry, using the published
list of award criteria to make their selections. These will be published on the
website as the year’s official Finalists.

3. Voting – We run two voting blocks:

DTA Panel:
DTA Panel: Industry professionals make up the DTA panel. They are charged with
voting once per category for the winner in the panel-voted awards. Each year
new panel members are added to keep our list as diverse and relevant as
possible.

Fan Voted: The public voters contribute by getting one vote per
category (which is ensured by tracking IP addresses and other means of
maintaining voter integrity).

4. Winners – Winners of each category are
determined by the most votes in each category. Clutter, nor The Designer
Toy Awards, or Five Points Festival staff, vote in or “choose” the
winners.

5. Awards Ceremony – The awards are
presented at a ceremony on June 1st, 2019, during the weekend of Five
Points Festival. For members of the public to attend the
ceremony, you must purchase a VIP ticket for Five Points Fest.